Textron Aviation Inc 208B
N490SA is a Textron Aviation Inc 208B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2026. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Tvpx Aircraft Solutions INC Trustee, a corporation in North Salt Lake, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 17, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 21, 2026.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Southern Airways Express, LLC, and on that of Summit Helicopters, Inc., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 2:56 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 208B · all 208Bs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 208 Caravan family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 208B5925
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-140 · 867 hp
- Seats
- 12
- Year built
- 2026
- Transponder code
- A611A9 (octal 51410651)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 17, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 17, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 21, 2026
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01537339
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tvpx Aircraft Solutions INC Trustee
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 39 e Eagle Ridge Dr Ste 201
North Salt Lake, UT 84054-2533
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N490SA links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 208 Caravan 1,017 registered
- Textron Aviation Inc 4,413 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Southern Airways Express, LLC · charter operator
- Summit Helicopters, Inc. · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-140 238 aircraft with this engine series · 867 hp
- Tvpx Aircraft Solutions INC Trustee 1,377 aircraft in the fleet
- North Salt Lake, UT 1,663 aircraft registered in this town
- Utah 8,358 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 208 Caravan 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 208 Caravan 1,908 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 208 Caravan 271 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-140 38 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Doubler, cracked · 1999-01-19
- Report filed on this aircraft: Skin, cracked · 1999-01-12
- Report filed on this aircraft: Engine, bird strike · 1998-09-16
- Where N490SA is now · Last seen yesterday at 2:56 pm.
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The public federal record on N490SA, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Tvpx Aircraft Solutions INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued April 17, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 21, 2026, consistent with the 2026 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 208B5925 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N490SA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas DC9-15 (serial 45798, cancelled May 4, 2006). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N490SA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data